The holidays can be an extremely stressful time, a season full of comings and goings, greetings and gifts, a time of seemingly constant motion, which is why this relaxing two-disc (one disc of instrum...continue...

Steeped in an atmosphere of ancient Scottish musical tradition, Benjamin Britten's setting of texts by Robert Burns in A Birthday Hansel was his final song-cycle....continue...
Recording information: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton University (09/17/2009-09/19/2009)....continue...

If a time-machine could take us back through the centuries, which musical occasion might we choose to attend? Surely a soiree at Rossini's Parisian home...continue...
Personnel: Robin Newton (programming).